And it came to pass that Steve Bowen wrote:
>Okay bad guys and gals
>
>Here is what Microsoft is saying about open source.
>
>MS Says Linux 'Stifles Innovation'
>By Aaron Dobbins, eFront
>February 16th, 2001, 4:31 PM
>
>According to a Bloomberg report, Microsoft's Jim Allchin said
>during the WindowsXP announcement that Linux is "an
>intellectual property destroyer" because of its open source
>nature. Allchin also said that the result of Linux gaining
>more ground would be the loss of incentive to research and
>develop, thus stifling innovation.
>
>Bloomberg quotes Allchin as saying "I'm an American, I
>believe in the American Way, I worry if the government
>encourages open source, and I don't think we've done enough
>education of policy makers to understand the threat."
>
>In closing, Allchin touted "we can build a better product
>than Linux."
>
>You can read the comments here:
>http://betanews.efront.com/article.php3?sid=982359094
>
>Also to read there was about a browser called K-Meleon
>
>K-Meleon is the Windows answer to Galeon. Thus, K-Meleon is a
>lite Web browser based on Gecko (the Mozilla rendering
>engine). It's fast, it has a light interface, and it is fully
>standards-compliant. To make it simple, K-Meleon could be
>considered as the unbloated Mozilla version for Windows.
>
>K-Meleon doesn't require Mozilla to be installed to run. The
>K-Meleon interface tries to mimic the IE MFC interface as
>much as possible. For convenience, it also uses the IE
>bookmarking system.
A. I so thoroughly despise the IE interface, why would I want
to use something that tries to look like it? It's kludgy.
B. I have never found anything slightly convenient about the IE
bookmarking system, so again, where's the attraction?
This product does not spark even the slightest interest. Dump
the IE attributes, and I'll consider trying it.
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}:-) Christopher Jahn
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